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Afghanistan features on this year’s Emergency Watchlist as some 23.7 million people—just over half of the population—urgently need humanitarian support. The crisis in Afghanistan largely stems from ...

The reported decrease in humanitarian needs has led to a significant reduction in the U.N.-led Afghanistan appeal, from $4.6 billion in 2023 to $3.07 billion this year. Aid agencies, however, warn ...

After the June war between Israel and Iran, Iran expelled hundreds of thousands of Afghans—threatening stability and ...

A rapidly intensifying refugee crisis is playing out along Iran’s border with Afghanistan. More than 700,000 Afghans returned to Afghanistan from Iran during the first six months of the year, ...

If the United Nations and other aid agencies fail to provide emergency assistance, “it will be a humanitarian crisis,” he said. Massive displacement has plagued Afghanistan for years ...

Afghanistan has largely disappeared from the media, but it remains one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Two-thirds of the country’s population is food insecure, including 875,000 ...

According to U.N. sources, the humanitarian aid system in Afghanistan is already desperately overstretched and underfunded, with over 29 million Afghans in need of assistance.

And the U.N. humanitarian agency, mine, UNHCR, and others, which have not left Afghanistan — we have never left Afghanistan, even during the difficult days in August — we have the ...

The Taliban leaders of Afghanistan are appealing for outside help after a devastating earthquake killed at least 1,000 people Wednesday and injured another 1,500. The quake struck in the eastern ...

It doesn’t seem to accept its responsibility to tackle the humanitarian crisis. In effect, the Taliban has taken the population of Afghanistan, particularly its women, ... Azadeh Mizani, Humanitarian ...

The United Nations chief is asking the world to help address a growing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Nearly half the country’s 38 million people need assistance, The Associated Press reported.